Free love : a novel / Tessa Hadley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadley, Tessa, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--20th century--Fiction.

London (England).

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Mothers--Fiction.

Mothers.

Wives--Fiction.

Wives.

Nineteen sixties--Fiction.

Nineteen sixties.

Psychological fiction.

Women--Sexual behavior.

England--London.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Historical fiction.

Romance fiction.

Love stories.

Novels.

Physical Description:

287 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

"1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. When the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family's upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them..." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"First published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9780063137776

0063137771

OCLC:

1292927055